Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles There is a story about Kanosuke Distillery and a strong wind that I found unexpectedly moving — not because of the wind…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles William Grant & Sons is one of the last major family-owned whisky companies in Scotland, and on their Dufftown estate in Speyside…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Octomore is Bruichladdich’s exercise in extremity — a single malt whisky series that holds, in various releases, the record for the most…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles The Macallan’s current pricing is a subject that generates strong feelings in the whisky community. Bottles that were affordable a decade ago…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Cardrona Distillery’s production philosophy — the decisions behind how the whisky is made — is as distinctive as the founder’s story and…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles “Pure malt” is a term that has meant different things in different places at different times. In Scotland, it was once used…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles High Coast Distillery, formerly known as Box Distillery, sits in the High Coast region of northern Sweden — one of the most…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles OMAR Distillery is one of Taiwan’s whisky producers that operates in the shadow of Kavalan — which is inevitable, given Kavalan’s extraordinary…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles EZO is the old name for Hokkaido — the Japanese island that is home to bears, red foxes, and one of the…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles In the conversation about Japanese craft whisky, certain names receive disproportionate attention relative to their production volume: Chichibu, Saburomaru, Kameda, the new…